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SV Staff  |  Jun 26, 2008
Pioneer is revealing a new center channel and bookshelf designed to match the S-3EX speakers revealed last year. Together, they'll make a kick-ass home theater system that will put most home-theater-in-a-box sat/sub system to shame. ...
SV Staff  |  Jun 26, 2008
Pioneer is revealing a new center channel and bookshelf speaker designed to match the S-3EX speakers revealed last year. Together, they'll make a kick-ass home theater system that will put most home-theater-in-a-box sat/sub system to shame. What...
Thomas J. Norton  |  May 16, 2007

Kuro is a Japanese word meaning deep, black, and penetrating. And on the tenth anniversary of its entry into the plasma display business, Pioneer announced the culmination of its <I>Project Kuro</I> to the assembled consumer electronics press in New York.

SV Staff  |  May 27, 2009
 Pioneer just announced the VSX-819AH, VSX-919AH and VSX-1019AH A/V receivers designed to help users integrate their Apple portables into their home theaters. After plugging in a player, you navigate your media using a specially designed...
Brent Butterworth  |  Mar 08, 2011

DVD, say your prayers. Blu-ray Disc, better get your affairs in order. Judging from the new A/V receivers Pioneer introduced on Monday at the W Hotel in San Francisco, one could easily conclude that the old "hard" media formats have pretty much played out.

SV Staff  |  Nov 04, 2008
Don't mess with Texas.  Marshall, Texas, that is. Marshall is the hotbed of patent infringement cases, and true to form, Marshall has ruled for the plaintiff - in this case, Pioneer Electronics. Japanese manufacturer Pioneer Corp....
SV Staff  |  Jun 26, 2008
Pioneer's four new 1080p plasma Kuro sets are tall, dark, and thin; who could ask for anything more? Two of them come with a really hot separate media receiver - a 4-port HDMI external switcher. The only problem is that they're only scheduled from...
 |  Jul 06, 2003

This fall, <A HREF="http://www.pioneerelectronics.com">Pioneer</A> will launch a new line of DVD recorders featuring TiVo's personal video recorder technology. Almost certain to cause anxiety among Hollywood studios and network broadcasters, the new recorders will combine TiVo's versatile recording and operating features, and give consumers the choice of archiving their recordings on magnetic hard disks or DVD-R/RW optical disks.

SV Staff  |  Feb 26, 2009
For the last two years, Pioneer Kuro plasmas have sit squarely at the top of our HDTV heap. Both the PRO-110FD and the PRO-111FD earned their years' respective Editor's Choice award for Best Product of the Year, and they've been roundly considered...
Barry Willis  |  Sep 22, 2002

Some Pioneer DVD recorders and computer drives need a firmware update before they can be used with new high-speed discs, according to a September 17 announcement from Long Beach, CA&ndash;based <A HREF="http://www.pioneerelectronics.com">Pioneer Electronics USA, Inc</A>. Using high-speed discs without first completing the update could cause damage to both discs and hardware, the company explained.

SV Staff  |  Mar 06, 2008
Okay, plasma-lovers. Take a deep breath. We know that news of Pioneer's plans to exit the plasma-making business caught a lot of you off guard. Not because all home theater enthusiasts own a beautiful, industry-leading model from Pioneer's Kuro...
Thomas J. Norton  |  Jul 04, 2005

Pioneer is not a huge company by Japanese mega-corp standards, so when they hold a line show, we don't expect dozens of new products. But they're big in the areas of importance to home theater enthusiasts, namely plasma displays, DVD players and recorders, and AV receivers. So when they invited me to attend their 2005 west coast line show, there was no question about my response. I were there.

SV Staff  |  May 09, 2017
Pioneer has introduced a portable hi-res digital audio player with a balanced line output and matching “hi-res earbuds.”
SV Staff  |  Mar 05, 2008
Reports in the Japanese business daily Nikkei that Pioneer Electronics is planning to cease production of plasma panels shocked the consumer electronics industry on Tuesday. Along with Panasonic, Pioneer has been one of plasma’s greatest...
SV Staff  |  Jun 11, 2018
Pioneer has pulled the wraps off a mid-priced AV receiver that targets cinephiles and gamers with the lure of an “ultimate” surround sound experience.

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